Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-05-13

The United States soldier when equipped
with rifle and cartridge belt, three days
cooked rations and 100 rounds OF ball car
tridges and Exit" of clothing, carries a
weight of over 50 pounds.
There is the burnt stump of a cedar tree
near Oakville, W. T., which is probably the
largest on record. 1t is hollow shell, 80
feet high and 81 feet in circumference at
the base. The cavity is % feet at its larg
est diameter.
A highly practical charity is that of the
Peoples mission in New York, which has
opened legal bureau for the benefit of peo-
pie who are unable to pay for legal advice.
Judge Noah Davis has consented to act as
one of the special legal advisers.
Travellers in Alaska find local changes of
climate very rapid in comparison with such
changes in more temperate regions. Parts
of the country that 100 years ago were
covered with ice sheets now have young
forests growing thriftily over them, while
tracts of country now ice-covered or cover
ed by glacial drift, were certainly covered
by luxuriant vegetation within the century.
A scientific journal says that if contin-
uous telegraph wire were strung from New
York to San Francisco, and a rain storm
should be in progress along the entire
-
the rain would amount to 100 miles, and
for smaller distances the proportion would
be the same. This, it is claimed, shows the
necessity of underground telegraphs
Cocoanut growers say that each tree in a
grove produces one nut a day, or 365 in
one year Owing TO the great height of
the trees it is impossible TO pick the nuts,
and they are allowed TO hang till they fall.
The natives gather them up and carry them
TO the husking machines, where the nuts
are stripped of the thick outside shells A
nut is most delicious Just after it has drop
ped from the tree.
A Kansas minister recently joined in
marriage a young couple few minutes be
fore the departure of the Kansas Central
train going east. The groom gave the cler-
gyman s. and departed happy. A few days
after the minister was surprised 10 receive
a letter from the new husband inclosing
another 49, The letter stated MY wife
is so much better than | expected that
feel owe you 50 more. "
George w. Childs, of the Philadelphia
Ledger has two maxims which stand him
in good stead, They are 'Do the best
and leave the rest and what can't be
cured must be endured. These bits of
philosophy and the habit Of taking long
walks keep Mr., Childs in a state of unruf-
fled temper, He is a great pedestrian. lie
will not go anywhere in "A vehicle if he can
travel on foot, He walks from his town
house to his Office and back every day.
1t is impossible not 10 be struck by the
rapidity of railway consolidation in New
England within the past few years There
are almost no small lines in independent
operation now all have been absorbed by
the larger systems. The latest step in thi,
direction is the lease of the Boston anc
Lowell road by the Boston and Maine
| With the Lowell, Eastern and Massachu
sets Central already in its control, anC
with its newly gained connections in thi
state and New Hampshire, The Boston an,
Maine road becomes one of the strongest o
the Eastern combinations Burlington Fire.
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